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Gigermann: /* Safety */

2018-04-26T18:46:29Z

‎Safety

Gigermann: /* New Secondary Characteristic: Stability */

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‎New Secondary Characteristic: Stability

Gigermann: /* New Statistic: Stability */

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‎New Statistic: Stability

Gigermann at 18:39, 26 April 2018

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Gigermann at 20:22, 25 April 2018

2018-04-25T20:22:48Z

Gigermann at 20:20, 25 April 2018

2018-04-25T20:20:44Z

Gigermann: /* Refreshing Stability */

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‎Refreshing Stability

Gigermann: /* Losing It */

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‎Losing It

Gigermann: /* Losing It */

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‎Losing It

Gigermann: /* Losing It */

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‎Losing It

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 This is the person you seek out for human contact, to make the pain and stress recede for the time being: your current girlfriend, a friendly bartender, your old handler. A name and identifying phrase are sufficient. You may not use fellow agents on your team; they go through the same stresses you do and remind you of the horrors you confront. It’s permissible, but risky, for multiple agents to lean on the same folks as members of their support network. Relying on others is a source of strength, but also of danger. Once you come to the attention of monstrous conspiracies, they may use your loved ones against you. They may corrupt them, turn them to evil or inhumanity, or take the tried and true route of subjecting them to horrible tortures. If you can spend six hours — of talk, quiet companionship, sex and sleep, athletic training, or other normal human interaction — with your Solace during an operation, you may immediately refresh 2 pool points of Stability; you may do this only once per session. This time must be safe from violent or supernatural interruption. If you spend at least a day of such interaction with your Solace between operations, you may fully refresh your Stability pool. Again, this time must be safe from violent or supernatural interruption. If your Solace ever betrays or rejects you, you immediately lose 2 rating points of Stability. If your Solace is ever turned by a vampire or killed, you immediately lose 3 rating points of Stability.
 ==Safety==
-This is the person and place you would flee to without thinking: your old trainer’s cabin in the Alps, your mother’s house in Scotland, your best friend’s apartment in Paris, a beachfront condo in Ibiza you’ve bought under another name. Simply knowing that such a refuge exists gives you hope that you can some day escape the shadowy world in which you dwell. At the end of any session in which your place of Safety remains inviolate, you may refresh 1 pool point of Stability. It is very poor tradecraft to actually flee to your place of Safety. Even if the vampires, hostile intelligence and security services, or other conspiracies don’t already have the place wired, your flight there would put your would-be refuge in their crosshairs. If you do get there, it counts as a haven (see p. 92) where you can immediately refresh three General ability pools. Any Preparedness tests you carry out there have a Difficulty that is 2 points lower than normal. In the very unlikely instance that you get there unobserved, you can refresh your whole Stability pool there, as well. If your place of Safety has an owner or caretaker, you can activate them as a free contact (without spending any Network points) with a rating of 6. This rating cannot be rebuilt with Network or experience points. You can only activate this contact once during the entire life of your character. If your place of Safety ever turns you out, or its owner (e.g., your old trainer, your mother, your best friend) betrays you, you immediately lose 3 rating points of Stability. If enemies destroy your place of Safety or its owner, you immediately lose 3 rating points of Stability. Replacing Sources of Stability You can, if you wish, rebuild your Stability rating using experience points (see p. 93) after losing a Source of Stability. Once you spend any experience rebuilding your Stability, you may replace the lost Source with another of the same type: if the opposition killed your girlfriend (your previous Solace), you can meet another girl and find Solace in her arms, or find Solace confessing to a priest instead. The Director should work this new ideal or NPC into the story, probably with a brief scene or two centered on this new relationship. You can never replace a Symbol that has proven valueless or a destroyed place of Safety during the campaign. You can still, however, replace a lost Symbol (a burned photograph of your son) with another (a new photo of him, downloaded off his Facebook page and onto your phone).
+This is the person and place you would flee to without thinking: your old trainer’s cabin in the Alps, your mother’s house in Scotland, your best friend’s apartment in Paris, a beachfront condo in Ibiza you’ve bought under another name. Simply knowing that such a refuge exists gives you hope that you can some day escape the shadowy world in which you dwell. At the end of any session in which your place of Safety remains inviolate, you may refresh 1 pool point of Stability. It is very poor tradecraft to actually flee to your place of Safety. Even if the vampires, hostile intelligence and security services, or other conspiracies don’t already have the place wired, your flight there would put your would-be refuge in their crosshairs. In the very unlikely instance that you get there unobserved, you can refresh your whole Stability pool there, as well. If your place of Safety has an owner or caretaker, you can activate them as a free contact (without spending any Network points) with a rating of 6. You can only activate this contact once during the entire life of your character. If your place of Safety ever turns you out, or its owner (e.g., your old trainer, your mother, your best friend) betrays you, you immediately lose 3 rating points of Stability. If enemies destroy your place of Safety or its owner, you immediately lose 3 rating points of Stability.
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 Spending a day with your Solace refreshes your Stability fully between operations. If your Solace is missing, dead, far away, or otherwise unavailable, you cannot refresh Stability at this time.
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	=Refreshing Stability=		=Refreshing Stability=
		+	If you suggest a spend for your agent, and the Director and other players agree that the result was especially impressive, you may roll one die and refresh that many Stability points to reflect your agent’s restored confidence in herself.<br />
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		+	Use of the Shrink ability permits limited recovery of Stability points in the course of a session (see p. 85).<br />
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		+	In campaigns where the teammates’ personal lives or beliefs are a matter of background detail only, an agent’s Stability automatically refreshes between adventures. If you have an Addictive Disorder (see p. 84), you can refresh 2 points of Stability by engaging in your addiction between operations.
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		+	===Sources of Stability and Refreshes===
		+	In campaigns using Sources of Stability, the agent can restore a limited amount of Stability during each session of play: 1 point by drawing strength from your Symbol, and 2 points for a six-hour interaction with his Solace. At the end of the session, you refresh 1 point if your place of Safety remains inviolate.<br />
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		+	Spending a day with your Solace refreshes your Stability fully between operations. If your Solace is missing, dead, far away, or otherwise unavailable, you cannot refresh Stability at this time.

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 *When your Stability reaches –12 or less, you are Incurably Insane. You may commit one last crazy act, which must either be self-destructively heroic or self-destructively destructive. Or you may choose merely to gibber and drool. Assuming you survive your permanent journey to the shores of madness, your character is quietly shipped off to a discreet Swiss sanitarium (or gathered up by the Agency for “retirement”), never to be seen again. Time to create a new character.
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 *If your Stability ranges from –6 to –11, you are Shattered. You acquire a mental illness, which stays with you even after your Stability pool is restored to normal. (See below for more.) You also continue to suffer the ill effects of being Shaken. Furthermore, you permanently lose 1 point from your Stability rating. The only way to get it back is to purchase it again with build points.
 *When your Stability reaches –12 or less, you are Incurably Insane. You may commit one last crazy act, which must either be self-destructively heroic or self-destructively destructive. Or you may choose merely to gibber and drool. Assuming you survive your permanent journey to the shores of madness, your character is quietly shipped off to a discreet Swiss sanitarium (or gathered up by the Agency for “retirement”), never to be seen again. Time to create a new character.
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